On the rear skull, the oval occipital condyle is obliquely pointing to below, indicating that the entire head was appending.
12.
The occipital condyle, the contact with the neck, is obliquely pointing to below, an ankylosaurid trait causing the head to be pointing downwards.
13.
Edopoids have several primitive or plesiomorphic features, including a single occipital condyle and a bone called the intertemporal that is absent in other temnospondyls.
14.
These occipital condyles _ distinctive, spherical bones characteristic of ceratopsians _ were part of the ball joint that supported the horned dinosaur's weighty head.
15.
The size of its occipital condyle is comparable to that of other very large chasmosaurines such as " Torosaurus " and " Triceratops ".
16.
Derived characters shared by these dinosaurs include a narrow strap-shaped paroccipital process, a very small occipital condyle, and an upturned dorsal margin of the predentary.
17.
Erickson recalled with subdued amazement, " were the occipital condyles _ the ball-like structures that connect the backbone to the skull _ of six crocodiles.
18.
Their rhachitomous vertebrae, notochord, and lack of occipital condyles ( which attached the head to the neck ) were features that were also shared with fishes.
19.
Several distinguishing characteristics can be seen in the skull of " Diunatans ", including a large occipital condyle and very small nasal bones compared to other rorquals.
20.
The smoothness of the lower jaw, along with the small size of the occipital condyle at the back of the skull, is a feature consistent with goniopholidids.
